I have been potting on and off for the last 43 years. I studied ceramics in my hometown in Rovaniemi, Finnis Lapland. After graduating I have been doing pottery as a business and teaching. I was running pottery classes as therapy at the Lakes psychiatric hospital for 22 years which I enjoyed a lot. 

I am a visual designer and illustrator who likes to explore different ways to express myself. As much as I am excited by the latest technologies and their promise, I am equally or more intrigued by the magic of making things by hand. Clay and ceramics are my newfound love that lets my whimsical world to break out of the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional one.  

What I do is still work-in-progress. I feel I am still on the path to where I want it to be. Most of my personal projects have been about documenting everyday life and experiences. My drawings mostly tend to be realistic and not abstract leaning towards the genre of visual journalism. I use hand lettering and illustrations in various ways to tell the stories that excite me.

I predominantly specialise in illustration and printmaking. Interested in the contemporary social mirrors embedded within today's society, I often use social media to feed my inspiration and tend to reflect my themes in a contrastingly physical environment. However, as of more recent, I've been taking a softer approach to my themes and am just enjoying making things that aren't too serious or kind of entertain me. 

I am just experimenting with shapes. I love the idea of using templates to create more angular forms, but also want to add a natural twist to that, like a decaying brutalist building. I also love working with colours and have bought far too many glazes. I’m currently working on getting the perfect sea or pond combination on some tester plates.

I draw cartoons, run workshops and art classes, install other people's art in galleries, play bass guitar, follow the town, cook adequately, occasionally put on gigs and events and sometimes screen print stuff.